Wendy Bell. A young mother murdered -- Ambushed in a Walmart Parking Lot! AND POLICE SAY IT WAS THE FATHER OF HER 3 CHILDREN WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER. WE HAVE LIVE TEAM COVERAGE -- DIGGING UP NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE VICTIM'S PAST PROBLEMS WITH THE SUSPECT!! 3 3 3 3 3 3 MARIAH ANDERSON WAS WORKING A LATE SHIFT AT WALMART TO SUPPORT HER THREE YOUNG CHILDREN. TONIGHT, SHE IS DEAD, GUNNED DOWN RIGHT IN THIS PARKING LOT IN COLD BLOOD. HOURS LATER - HER KILLER - TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. 3 TRACK: SHE WAS ONLY 22 YEARS OLD. HER CAR - RIDDLED WITH GUN-SHOTS.Lt Hermick 4544 @ 5:07-5:09 "yeah, a lot of lives have been changed and ruined today by this event."TRACK: POLICE SAY 27 YEAR OLD CARLOS HARPER - THE FATHER OF ANDERSON'S THREE KIDS - KILLED HER - AFTER STALKING HER FOR MORE THAN A WEEK. THE TWO BROKE UP - AFTER HARPER ATTACKED HER.POLICE CHARGED HIM - BUT, HE GOT OUT OF JAIL ON BOND. A DANGEROUS PERSON ON THE STREETS.Lt Eric Hermick/PSP Lawrence county, HOF 4544 @ 4:36-4:45"due process is maybe what kept him out, I don't know, he was also a drug trafficking target of our agency. We were working to apprehend him working under cover through drug purchasing."TRACK: 3 AFTER THE MURDER IN THE PARKING LOT - IT LOOKS LIKE HARPER DRIVES TO HIS HOME IN NEW CASTLE - HAIR TRIMMINGS WERE FOUND ON THE FLOOR - HE MAY HAVE TRIED TO CHANGE HIS APPEARANCE.HE EVENTUALLY ENDS UP IN BEAVER COUNTY - AT A FRIEND'S APARTMENT.WHEN POLICE SURROUND THE PLACE - HARPER PULLS THE TRIGGER ON HIS FORTY CALIBER GUN AGAIN. THIS TIME FIRING AT POLICE THE TIMING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WORSE.Lt Hermick 4544 @ 2:53-3:04 "This is a housing complex with multiple buildings around it, multiple apartments adjacent to it, wood floors, there was just a hellacious amount of danger for the kids getting up for school this morning." 3 Harper's sister "right now I want to know if my brother breathing or not, that's all I want to know, I don't want to know nothing else, that's all I want to know."TRACK: HARPER'S SISTER LATER FOUND OUT - HE TOOK HIS OWN Harper 's Sister " told me he was down here, I had no clue where he was or I woulda came down here and turned him in myself and then he just hung up the phone and then I get another call that he shot himself." 3 3 POLICE TELL ME MARIAH ANDERSON WAS SMART - SHE DID KEEP HERSELF SAFE FROM HER EX- BOYFRIEND.LET'S BRING IN PAUL VAN OSDOL WITH MORE ON THE COUPLE'S PAST. 3 3 3 On november 10th Mariah Anderson says Carlos Harper assaulted her at their house on Sharp Street in New Castle. A neighbor says it was 3 not the first time there were problems at the house. Tom Newton/Neighbor Paul: How often did the police come? Newton: they've been here about 3 last couple weeks. In the most recent incident mariah said Harper slammed her against the bed and bit her on the wrist. harper was charged with simple assault, indecent assault and other offenses. Mariah also filed a 3 PFA against him - the done that. But a judge released him from jail on just 1- thousNd dollars bond. stalked and killed Mariah Luv Prowell/Cousin 3 "It seemed like the system didn't work. He was out the next day. This guy should have been locked up behind bars." Tirisha 3 Prowell/Sister "I look at the whole PFa like it was just a piece of "People say all the time it's just a piece of paper." The director of the Lawrence county Crisis Shelter says the judicial domestic violence more seriously. Debby Hennon/Crisis Center victim be a number one concern as opposed to the comfort of the person causing all the trouble." 3 3